apple The company is laying off 614 employees in California, the company’s first major layoffs since the pandemic, according to a new state filing.
The affected Apple employees reportedly worked at eight different facilities in Santa Clara. A warning notice has been posted By California. Workers were formally informed of the layoffs on March 28, and the changes will take effect May 27, according to the filing.
Apple hasn’t been forced to downsize in the same way as its peers, largely because the iPhone maker has grown slower than its competitors during the pandemic.
The filing comes weeks after Apple canceled a long-term project to build electric self-driving cars with a team called the Special Projects Group. The California notice does not mention specific projects where jobs will be cut, but none of the locations mentioned in the filing are Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, suggesting secret efforts are taking place. Located in a small satellite office with high quality.
The positions being cut include machine shop managers, hardware engineers and product design engineers. To the San Francisco Chroniclefirst reported this news.
An Apple representative declined to comment.
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